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FATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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PATENTED SEPT. 22, 1903.

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INSTRUUTIVE GAME. APPLICATION FILED HA3. 9, 1903.

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ELIZABETH HoYT IVES, or MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

INSTRUCTIVE GAM E.

SPECIFICATION amon part of Letters Patent N... 739,678, dated September22, 1903.

Application filed March 9, 1903.

full, clear, and exact specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, wherein- Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are illustrationsof objects representing words or phrases which are parts of titles ofliterary works. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are portraits of authors; and Figs. 8and 9 are pictures similar to those shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, butset together so as to compose a complete title of a literary work.

My invention relates to utensils for playing instructive games; and it.consists in devising and arranging cards bearing pictorialrepresentations of Words or phrases composing titles of literary works,combining them into series and in combining therewith portraits of theauthors of works, the titles whereof are represented, and finally in thearrange-. ment of games to be played by means of such cards.

The figures of the drawings are front views of cards made according tomy invention.

Fig. 1 of the drawings shows a card hearing the conventionalrepresentation of a tramp. Fig. 2 illustrates a heap of stones. Fig. 3shows an ax with the letter O entwined with the handle of the ax. Fig. 4shows the letter A expanded laterally. Fig. 5 is the portrait ofBulwer-Lytton Fig. 6, that of -Mark Twain; Fig. 7, that of Stevenson;and

Figs. 8 and 9 show two cards joined together,

showing, respectively, one a bee with the letter E and the other a pairof human hands tied together by a rope.

By joining together Figs. Land 4 in their successive order, thepictorial representation of the words A tramp abroad is obtained,

which is the title of Mark Twains popular book. The same,-by joiningFigs. 3 and 2, the pictorial representation of the word Caxstones(Caxtons) is obtained, which is the title of Bulwer-Lyttons work. Figs.8 and 9 joined together, as shown in the drawings,

represent the title of Stevensons novel Ebb- Tide. The cards are ofcourse also capable Serial No. 146,924. (No man.)

of being combined differently and are in this respect like the lettersof an alphabet, except that'they are devised with the object in view torepresent only such syllables, words, or phrases of which the titles ofmeritorious literary works are composed.

, The cards can be used without the portraits of the authors. The cardsbearing the portraits of the authors have the object to indicate to someextent what literary works are represented by the cards of a set. Theyalso serve in the game of solving problems to compose from the cards oneor more titles of works written by a designated author or of the problemto select from them the author who has written a given'work. The cardswith the portraits of authors serve also in the game, as I shall explainfarther on, to make up the sets of works by exchanging the cards amongthe players.

The number of the cards and the number of the sets are limited. I Thecards may be provided with letters or numbers-as, for instance, shown onFigs. 1,

designating of the cards of one group facilitates the separating of thecards into sets for individual instruction and of course simplifies theproblem of composing the titles of the works written by the particularauthor. The cards may also be provided with the consecutive numbers orindications (see Figs. 1 and 4) indicating the manner ofcombining theminto titles of works. When in such arrangement, the sets are in thenature of rebuses, the solution of which is the rudimental applicationof the products of my invention. After the pupils haveacquired theknowledge of the-titles of the works represented in the cards they maybe required tocompose from the cards the titles of the works of a givenauthor or to select from the cards bearing the portrait of authors theauthor of the work represented by-a set of title-cards given to thepupil. Eben again a game can be played by dealing out indiscriminatelyto each participant an equal number of cards and re quiring them tocomplete the titles or sets of titles from the remaining stock of cards.Many other systems of instructive games may be practiced by means of thecards, all of which, however, require instruction in literature and allof which are tending to improve the knowledge of the participant of theworks of various authors and stimulate the study of literature andreading of meritorious books.

I claim as my invention 1. A game device consisting of cards bearingrebuses representing syllables, words or phrases, forming componentparts of titles of literary works.

2. A game-device consisting of cards bearing rebuses representingsyllables, words or phrases forming component parts of titles ofliterary works, and cards bearing portraits of authors of the works, thetitles whereof are represented in the other cards.

-3. A game device consisting of sets of cards, each set comprising cardsbearing rebuses representing component syllables, words or phrases o thetitle of a literary work.

4. Angame device consisting of sets of cards, each set comprising cardsbearing rebuses representing component syllables, words or phrases ofthe title of a literary work, and a card bearing the portrait of theauthor of the works, the titles whereof are represented in the othercards of the set.

ELIZABETH 'HOYT IVES. Witnesses:

HELEN HOWE, SARA M. J OHNSON.

